To adjust for a specific fan speed, this is as written in the manual: ------ Fan Speed
The K3S/100 includes two large, quiet fans. Fan speeds are normally selected automatically, but you can manually select a minimum fan speed if desired. See the CONFIG:KPA3 menu entry. -------- I never have found the K3 to get hot, ever. Nothing like the hot my old Drake TR-7 used to get. That said, I'm a bugger for driving with low power so I often have the amp on in case there's some DX I want to go for and don't want to wait for the warm up period. So I'll set the drive from the K3 (& now the K3s), at 2-5 watts or so and with the amp being QSK, it works perfectly and if I want to go QRP, I'm already there. I could just drive the radio at 100W which is what most of us do but I like doing it this way. Besides, I don't like turning the amp on & off multiple times throughout the day, I understand that isn't nice to the tubes over the course of years. So this way I have a cool rig, no issues with distortion, and the amp is always ready to go. Only downside is a higher noise level in the shack but to that end, I almost always wear the Bose QC-15 and they make the noise go away. 73, Gary KA1J ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
